Cognizant

Product Owner - Agentic AI Solutions

Cognizant$81K — $141K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in AI/ML or healthcare technology solutions.
  • Experience with healthcare products and digital product lifecycle management.
  • Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum practices including backlog prioritization and user story creation.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across various teams.
  • Experience in defining product success metrics and performance reporting.
  • Capability to evaluate product opportunities and balance autonomy with risk in AI workflows.
  • Familiarity with healthcare platforms such as TriZetto is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the product vision and strategy for agentic AI solutions.
  • Identify and prioritize high-value use cases for autonomous agents.
  • Manage and prioritize the product backlog, creating user stories for engineering.
  • Define agent behaviors and measurable outcomes like accuracy and task completion rates.
  • Collaborate with engineering to assess technical feasibility and architecture trade-offs.
  • Partner with various teams to ensure adherence to responsible AI standards.
  • Establish monitoring processes and audit trails for agent actions in regulated environments.
  • Drive go-to-market planning and oversee product progress through agile methodologies.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Full Job Description
Product Owner - Agentic AI Solutions

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of innovative agentic AI solutions within a healthcare-focused environment. The ideal candidate will partner closely with business stakeholders, AI/ML engineering teams, UX designers, and governance teams to define product strategy, translate requirements into actionable user stories, and drive high-impact solutions that improve automation, efficiency, and user outcomes.
Role Responsibilities
• Define and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for agentic AI solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Identify high-value use cases where autonomous agents can drive efficiency, automation, or new capabilities.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog, translating business requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Define agent behaviors, decision boundaries, success criteria, and measurable outcomes such as accuracy, latency, cost per task, and task completion rates.
• Partner with engineering teams to scope technical feasibility, estimate effort, and evaluate architecture trade-offs for agentic workflows.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, data science, UX, compliance, and governance teams to ensure solutions meet responsible AI standards.
• Establish guardrails, escalation paths, monitoring processes, and audit trails for agent actions, especially in regulated environments.
• Drive go-to-market planning, pilot programs, phased rollouts, stakeholder demos, and executive reporting for product progress.
• Support Agile delivery through sprint planning, backlog grooming, dependency management, and prioritization of technical debt and enhancements.
Required Qualifications
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, ideally supporting AI/ML, automation, digital product, or healthcare technology solutions.
• Experience with healthcare products, consumer care product development, or digital product lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices, backlog prioritization, user story creation, and acceptance criteria definition.
• Ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across engineering, design, business, data science, and compliance teams.
• Experience defining product success metrics, KPIs, OKRs, and product performance reporting.
• Ability to evaluate product opportunities, translate business needs into scalable solutions, and balance autonomy, risk, and control in AI-enabled workflows.
• Familiarity with healthcare platforms or products such as TriZetto is preferred.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and executive presentation skills.
Salary and Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is between $81K - $141K depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.
Benefits

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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340,400 employees
Market Cap
$28.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$16.6 billion
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